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[–] [email protected] 280 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I remember reading that when national parks tried to make a 'bear-proof' trashcan, they found that there was a larger overlap between the smartest bear and the stupidest human to make a viable product.

I feel like it's a similar situation here. The smartest kid and the stupidest adult are far more similar than we'd like to admit.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Tbh I find it much more surprising that there's an overlap of bears and stupid people than I do smart kids and dumb adults.

I've met an unfortunate amount of people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Bears can be trained to drive cars and communicate through various means, it's thought they may be as smart as great apes like gorillas. This is why they were a choice circus animal for a long time.

Yes, this should be terrifying information.

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[–] [email protected] 258 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nice try little Timmy, but I won't be telling you how to pass as an adult.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Because you are a kid and you don't know but are pretending to be an adult. Nice try!

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[–] [email protected] 189 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Very confidently wrong, poor reading comprehension, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, emoji gore, catch phrase/pop culture quotes/talking points repeated with no comprehension of what they're saying, clearly not aware of how many things in life work, religious regurgitation while being surprised everyone doesn't agree with them. Very easily impressed with basic factual statements, clearly thinking confidence is the main thing that makes someone correct. Thinks their mom telling they they are handsome is a valid point. Idk, that's all I got.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Depending on what you meant by "very easily impressed with basic factual statements" it could go either way. I'm an adult and I'm happy to admit I don't know a lot things, sometimes I've been stunned that what I believed was totally wrong and all it took was some to give me a basic fact to make me realise.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

very confidently wrong

Lmao dude that’s just people in general especially on forums

There’s also nothing wrong with people learning new info, no matter how simple it may seem. That’s kind of a pretentious/egotistical way to operate.

Most of this list is actually pretty garbage. Emojis? Using slang/catch phrases? This is basic social stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Bonus: can also be applied to boomers.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (18 children)

Extreme/insane positions on everything. Not just one or two insane positions, not just political extremism; when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING. No nuance allowed. And it has to be fully sincere, otherwise you are dealing with a Jreg.

There are milder versions of this, but I have rarely met a child that didn't have a strongly held insane belief formed from their limited experiences. My favorite was a kid who told me that eating pasta supports fascism because it comes from Italy, so loving Italian products means you support Mussolini. Pizza is fine, though, because that's American.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 5 months ago (13 children)

I don't think there is a "dead giveaway". Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can't tell if it's a child or someone who doesn't speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There's a lot of different people in the world.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online "that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway", "r/teenagers is mainly grown me", it really bothers me because no, you're just overconfident in estimating people's ages from text

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I aint reading allatπŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

Like if gay is bad and u a sigma (YT shorts raised me)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They're getting private messaged by YouTubers

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (6 children)

"Redditors of Reddit, how do you sexily sex the sex out of sexy sex???"

Serious response: you can't really make a very general rule. There are a lot of people who write quite maturely since their teens, and a lot of people who are morons since their teens and have endless dedication and determination to remain in that state for as long as they breathe.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (23 children)

When they're adamant that voting third party in the United States will be useful in some capacity, I assume they're 13

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago

The youngsters are downvoting you, but what you're saying is sad but true. It's the reason Bernie never ran as an independent, he knew it would hand the victory to republicans on a silver platter.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Not understanding the difference between pre and post 9/11 politics

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hate to break it to you but people born in 2006 are turning 18 this year (and are technically considered "adults").

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Having just turned 43, I can tell you that I don’t think I became an adult until my early/mid 30s.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (19 children)

I'm actually gonna give the benefit of the doubt and assume this is actually a grown idiot lol

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don't know about you all, but I have been posting as an adult human male for a numbers of years now despite being a 4 year old Alaskan Malamute. No one seems to notice or care.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Specifically in games: constantly repeating the flavor of the month insults. Typically some influencer comes up with a funny insult then for the rest of the month some kids use that one singular insult for every situation

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don't really know, but when they have weird illogical views that they defend with trump like arguments, I think they are kids. They might not be 10.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know

Edit: thanks for all the likes! I never got 100 before!!! πŸ’€

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Kids care too deeply about the most shallow things

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Assuming that getting married means you'll never masturbate again.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (8 children)

A lack of understanding interpersonal interactions.

And it’s more of a feeling than it is any single behavior. You just… know it when you see it. They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform, and that getting along with others happens solely on their terms. They kind of act like everyone but them is an NPC - not realizing to everyone but them, they’re the NPC.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (7 children)

For me personally the first tell is when they are morally loading every statement in an argument and are unable to engage with a topic directly. Adults should be able to discuss or debate certain topics on the value of the arguments alone without feeling pressured to include a declarative virtue signal in every clause.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't say there is one. Every time i think to myself something like "goddamn, this person is immature" I remind myself that there's a high number of immature adults in the world including myself, so...?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm 62. I'm accused of being a kid all the time.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (9 children)

62 sounds like the kind of random age a kid would say they are. Found 'em!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Username with a year that tracks as a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Trick question: assume everyone is a child until proven otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Excessive edginess

It's important to differentiate it from like. Having extreme opinions. There are plenty of adults with extreme opinions and they are a whole other conversation. -- But only people under a certain age (not strictly kid, mind, though most people have shaken this off by their mid 20s) have a penchant to arrive at extreme opinions specifically because they are "edgy" and "cool".

This tends to also come with a particularly needless hostile attitude, where they very quickly and easily start with the verbal abuse.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Their usernames are the random ones proposed by the platform, such as Lazy_Platform_34.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I honestly can’t tell. Whenever I see a dumb outrage for video games, I tell my self that it’s a kid, but deep down I I really don’t know

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fr fr bussin no cap the rizzler is mewing

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The neat thing about anonymous discussion on the Internet is that it doesn't matter. What you have to say is all that matters.

I don't know anything about anyone and that's great.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (6 children)

When someone asks what’s a dead give away someone is a kid, it tells me they’re not old enough to remember the ASL days.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Asking basic questions that can usually be answered with internet experience ("how do bans/kicks work", or "what is an administrator", "what is LAN" etc.)

Flaunting "new" features that existed on older products. ("This game let's us upload our own music to soundtrack!", "I've never seen a platformer like this" etc.)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They are on TikTok and not Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (15 children)

They are a lemmy.world user

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Using a year as an extremely long period of time, never uses "talk it out" as a solution to anything, mentions a YouTuber you've never heard of as if they're a global celebrity.

Also related to the first point, losing their mind over something that delays their education/life plans by 4 months or more.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)

My general metric:

Hahaha = gen x

Lol = older millenial

Lmao = younger millenial

πŸ’€ = Gen z

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Vertical filming, putting music into videos when you could just use silence

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Alpha / Beta male noise. Ok kiddo we get it, you're insecure

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